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<font color="#7030a0" size="3">Good Afternoon Parents of Blind Children</font><BR><font color="#7030a0" size="3"></font> <BR><font color="#7030a0" size="3">I know many of you may already be on the NFBNet Blind Kid Mailing List but here is a wonderful letter from one of our parents. I tought of many of you & your children that I have grown close to. I know that each day can be a serious of struggles but maybe today this will encourage you.</font><BR> <BR>Message: 1<br>Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 20:35:06 -0500<br>From: Penny Duffy <pennyduffy@gmail.com><br>To: "NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List, (for parents of blind children)"<br> <blindkid@nfbnet.org><br>Subject: [blindkid] "I like it"<br>Message-ID:<br> <CABb_=Qcs6Gk=Hx_jxQu8dYf59MHUP0dL-7_hiyKfo1AyU2szew@mail.gmail.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<br> <br>Today my 8 year old daughter and I had a discussion about braille. We were<br>talking about how some kids don't get braille even when it could help them.<br> She was than told me about one of her friends (who she has O&M with<br>sometimes) hates braille. She told me she really wishes her friend would<br>give it more of a try. She than said. "Braille... I like it." I realize<br>as I type out those words that it doesn't come across how positive and<br>happy she was when she said those words. To say the past year and half has<br>been hard would be an understatement. My daughter becoming blind has been<br>such a journey the past 18 months. It was so hard dealing with her<br>frustrations, impatience and resistance. She was angry that she had to do<br>things differently than her classmates. She was angry that she had to<br>learn to do things differently. I will simply horrible at times. Today<br>I know it all was worth it. She is reading so well. She skills are getting<br>better by the day. She get it. She knows that being a braille reader<br>makes her a reader and she likes being a reader.<br> <br>I am going to say something the first time I heard it seemed shocking to me<br>and now I believe it . "Braille isn't hard to learn." Now helping your<br>6-7 year old strong willed daughter learn to read while she is adjusting to<br>vision loss was challenging. We survived and we are both better for it.<br>-- <br>--Penny<br><br><br><font color="#002060" size="3"><strong>Trudy L. Pickrel</strong></font><br><font color="#002060" size="3"><strong>President MD Parents of Blind Children</strong></font><br><font size="3"><font color="#002060"><strong>301-387-4182<br>301-501-1818</strong><br></font></font><font color="#800080" size="4"><strong><a href="http://www.tlcbythelake.weebly.com" target="_blank">www.tlcbythelake.weebly.com</a></strong></font><br>
<font color="#800080" size="4"><strong><a href="http://mdparentsofblindchildren.org/" target="_blank">http://mdparentsofblindchildren.org/</a><br><BR><div><font color="#c00000" size="2"><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1">Our independence comes from within. A slave can have keen eyesight, excellent mobility, and superb reading skills?and still be a slave. We are achieving freedom and independence in the only way that really counts?in rising self-respect, growing self-confidence, and the will and the ability to make choices. Above all, independence means choices, and the power to make those choices stick.<br> <br>Kenneth Jernigan<br> <br></font> <a href="http://www.nfb.org/" target="_blank">www.nfb.org</a></font></div></strong></font> </div></body>
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